Bloody Elbow 2019 Half-Year Awards – Best Submission

Make your pick for the best submission of the first half of 2019 in Bloody Elbow’s Half-Year Awards.

Over the next few days, Bloody Elbow is going to ask for your opinion on some of the best things that have happened in the MMA world over the first half of 2019. With these being half-year awards, there will be an abbreviated number of categories – five to be exact.

For the sake of simplicity we’re going to stick with high-level and relevant MMA stuff in these posts. While I’m sure there was a ludicrous knockout in an unscheduled MMA event at The Lumberyard strip club in Des Moines, or an insane pancreas lock submission on an obscure ZST! card in Japan, let’s just stick to stuff a lot of us have seen, okay? (If that spiel looked familiar, it’s because I’ve used the same one for nine years in a row. Originality? What originality?)

It’s pretty simple. I’ll post 5 options in a category, you vote for what you think was the best. If you think I left something really important off my list, post it in the comments and we can add it to the poll if it’s deemed worthy. I can almost guarantee you won’t like all my suggestions, but narrowing down these lists is tough.

Our first category will be best submission. The first half of the year saw some grappling artistry from a great many fighters, and here are some of the best to choose from.

Brent Primus stops Tim Wilde with a gogoplata, Bellator Birmingham

Mads Burnell makes Dean Trueman tap to a Japanese necktie, Cage Warriors 106

Marlon Moraes locks up a guillotine on Raphael Assuncao, UFC Fortaleza

Jack Hermansson guillotines David Branch, UFC Philadelphia

Charles Oliveira with an anaconda choke on David Teymur, UFC Fortaleza